Tim Medin’s talk “Offense for Defense” is a practical, engaging, and humorous guide for blue teamers, defenders, and IT professionals on leveraging offensive security tools and mindsets to proactively strengthen their organizations—without needing to become full-time red teamers.
From Army signal intelligence and radio jamming to modern DDoS defense, the same lessons in reconnaissance, timing, disruption and adaptation reveal how attackers overwhelm networks — and how defenders can stay ahead.
Once the work can move from agent to agent, killing the agent is no longer the same thing as stopping the work.
Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee has repeatedly warned that under-resourced water utilities cannot defend themselves against growing cyber threats alone. A new federal-state-industry initiative in Texas aims to start closing that gap.
CYBR.SEC.CON. LaunchPad finalist Above Security is using AI-driven behavioral analysis and real-time employee coaching to prevent insider risk before it becomes a security incident.
Transit hardware hacking shows how surplus public transportation devices can be reverse engineered, repurposed and explored to uncover how real-world systems work — and where unexpected security weaknesses may hide.
Cognitive warfare turns the human mind into an attack surface, using disinformation, emotion, identity and social manipulation to exploit cognitive biases, erode trust and shape how people perceive reality.
AI-powered hackbots are reshaping cybersecurity by automating reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery and attacks at machine speed, forcing defenders to rethink how they detect and respond to threats.
Yesterday's me made a move. Today's me inherits the consequences. Tomorrow's me will inherit a different world again.
AI is flooding the cybersecurity market with new startups and products, making it harder to separate real innovation from noise — while CISOs risk compounding the problem when practitioners are left out of security tool decisions.
CISA’s “Tale of Two SOCs” red team research shows why SOC automation, AI guardrails and human authority to contain attacks must evolve together.
Cybersecurity leaders can have the right technical answer and still fail to influence business decisions when they cannot translate cyber risk into language executives understand, trust and act on.
AI-powered attacks are moving faster than traditional IOC sharing can keep up, forcing security teams to rethink how they detect threats and share threat intelligence.
Cybersecurity tool selection works better when CISOs give security practitioners a voice in buying decisions, improving adoption, security outcomes and team retention.
Security leaders need emerging cybersecurity technology faster than ever, but finding the startups actually worth their time is getting harder as AI accelerates both innovation and cyber threats. Starting with CYBR.SEC.CON, we plan to do something about it.
